EASTERLING

East″er‐ling (?), n. [[Cf. Sterling.]] 1. 1. A native of a country eastward of another; — used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic.
Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us. Holinshed. 2. 2. A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England. Crabb.
3. 3. (Zoöl.) The smew.